The first trailer for "Ballerina" proves that John Wick is back, doing what he does best—coming back, and with a vengeance.
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00:00John Wick is back, doing what he does best — coming back, and with a vengeance.
00:06"...yeah, I'm thinking I'm back!"
00:09This time, he's a supporting character in Ballerina, aka from the world of John Wick,
00:13Ballerina, which hits theaters on June 6, 2025.
00:18"...Eve McCarroll, the Vascaroma. What a pleasure to see you again."
00:25Ana de Armas plays Eve, an assassin in training.
00:28"...How do I start doing what you do?"
00:32In a story set between 2019's John Wick Chapter 3 and the fourth installment,
00:37which dropped in 2023.
00:39"...Looks like you already have."
00:42So think of Ballerina as John Wick 3.5, both a prequel and a spinoff.
00:47Keanu Reeves isn't the only Wick-verse cast member back on the big screen, either.
00:52"...Do you like to dance? I know a school where they teach dances."
00:57Ian McShane is back as Continental Hotel owner Winston, Angelica Huston returns as the director,
01:03and the late Lance Reddick in his final big-screen role plays Sharon, the Continental's concierge.
01:10"...Welcome to the Continental."
01:12Newcomers include Norman Reedus as the mysterious Pine,
01:15and Gabriel Byrne as a villain known as the Chancellor.
01:18In the director's chair this time around? Not Chad Stahelski, for the first time in the franchise.
01:23Instead, Len Wiseman, best known for the Underworld films, The Total Recall Reboot,
01:28and his high-profile 2016 divorce from Underworld star Kate Beckinsale, is helming.
01:33But it's Keanu's big return that has Wick fans reloaded and ready.
01:38"...You're not very good at retiring."
01:41"...I'm working on it."
01:43John's supposed to be dead following the events of the fourth installment,
01:47so going the prequel route is a tidy trick to resurrect him in a way that makes sense.
01:51But John Wick 5 is also in the works, so some fans already believe that their
01:56favorite assassin survived his last go-round. Regardless, Ballerina is set to be Eve's show,
02:01as she goes on a crusade to take down the killers who murdered her family.
02:05The trailer makes it clear that she's fairly new to the game, but she's most definitely
02:09equipped to kick, punch, and blast her way through torms of bad guys by herself. Still,
02:14some fans believe that Keanu's still the biggest selling point,
02:17no matter how limited his screen time ends up being. One commenter posted,
02:21"...Keanu is definitely only in one scene,
02:24but they are going to advertise the hell out of that one scene."
02:27Another added,
02:28"...I don't give two Fs if Keanu appears even for one minute.
02:31I'm going to the theater to see him for that one minute."
02:34Fans will know for sure just how much Wick makes it into From the World of John Wick Ballerina
02:39when the spinoff spins into theaters in June 2025.